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You are correct that Blaine's Two Card Monte is "Be Honest, What it It" and it can be found in The Magic of Eddie Fechter by Jerry Mentzer. The "Sandwich Trick" is generally acknowledged to be John Scarne's Switchcraft which appeared in Frank Garcia's Million Dollar Card Miracles (without...

The Cyclopedia is an abridged version. The hard back and the paperback are the same regardless of the edition.

Oops. Page 321. I was looking at the contents for the Cyclopedia of Magic instead of the Complete Course in Magic. Same idea, but just an extra step where the spectator chooses 2 or 3 out of the five.

The answer is in @ParkinT's response. If you don't understand it, you don't understand the magician's force or equivoque. If that is the case, get Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic and read the description of the Magician's force on page 99. It is a great book and there is so much more...

Books about Magic History Jim Steinmeyer's Hiding the Elephant Jim Steinmeyer's The Last Greatest Magician Historical Magic Books Our Magic by Masklyne and Devant (Paperback on Amazon for around $16; Kindle version is $1.99) My Magic Life by David Devant The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs...

I've heard great things from folks that have seen Derek's show. I'm hoping to see it now that it has been extended into 2018.

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@Maaz Hasan. @kennethcmerrill and @Lord Magic are right. Take it slow. You are not ready to perform for money after six months of learning off of YouTube. You may feel like you know a lot, but you have barely scratched the surface. Embrace magic, learn its secrets -- not the methods but the...

One with at least 48 cards.

Knowledge is relative. Have you read Bob Cassidy's Fundamentals, Anneman's Practical Mental Magic, Fulves's Self-Working Mentalism, Banachek's Psychological Subtleties, Corinda's 13 Steps, T.A. Water's Mind, Myth and Magic, Bresler's Switchcraft, Leslie's Paramiracles and Maven's Prism? I...

Exactly. Your script is beyond cringeworthy. The goal is to entertain your spectators, not embarrass them using your position as an entertainer. Avoid going for the cheap reaction, go for meaning and true emotion.

It really depends on the folks that are there. See if you can go to a meeting or two before joining.

You can do like others do and be ordinary or you can challenge the assumptions that everyone makes and be extraordinary. The difference between tricks and performance pieces. My issue is that a presentation talking about one method makes the audience think there is a method. Thinking there...

Read. Everything. Fiction, non-fiction, news. Pick up a copy of magazine like Reader's Digest, Discover, Nature, National Geographic Smithsonian, or Popular Mechanics. Read classic books. I love the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Read books like Blink, Freakonomics, or an amazing book called How...

I disagree that you can "say the stupidest stories." You lose credibility UNLESS you develop a context in which the story is plausible. Think about what would happen if Lightning McQueen appeared in the most recent Star Wars film or Spiderman appeared in Snow White. Those stories are...

But they are organic, highly visual, must-have effects that kill, slay, murder and then resuscitate the audience. Every magician quoted has been amazed by them. In fact, they are the most amazing trick since the last trick they were quoted on.

Kainoa Harbottle taught me how to vanish my thumb using a retention vanish. It makes people think you really vanished your thumb for a moment until reality kicks back in.

Sorry.... couldn't resist quoting you on this one. It actually predates Martin Gardner by more than a couple of years. The earliest known publication is in 1593 by Horatio Galasso under the title "How to Have Someone Think of a Card and Guess What it Is." The mathematical principle was...

Mike Cavney's Wonders and Conference Illusions The Secrets of So Sato Sewing Needles, a Pink Tomato Pin Cushion and a bottle of "Spellbound" Pinot Noir 4 Dollar Size Antique Chinese Coins A package of Neodymium magnets A brick of Bicycle Standard cards from Costco

So, am I the only one thinking, "How about starting with Volume 1?" Much of the writing in Tarbell is from the 1920s, so it is a bit dated. However, the methods are not dated. Read what is written and use you imagination to understand how the effect works and then imagine how you would...